Tiberium (called Ichor by the Scrin) is a mysterious crystalline material that arrived on Earth in 1995 and is the foundation of the Tiberium Universe. It is the main resource in the Tiberium Universe, having enough value when processed to directly fund armies. According to …

Tiberium is an alien crystalline substance which arrived on Earth through a meteorite impact near the Tiber river in Italy in the year 1995. An existential threat to carbon-based life as well as an immensely valuable resource, Tiberium acts as the cornerstone of the eponymous Tiberium...

Crystals, also known as Tiberium Vinifera, are in the matured stage of Tiberium. In Tiberium Alliances, it can be harvested by harvesters and is used as a resource to pay for units and their upgrades.

During the Ascension Conflict, Tiberium Crystals were dropped onto the battlefield using T.E.U. Lifters, and when returned to a deploy zone, it is then converted into an upgrade point, allowing commanders to upgrade units and structures. The unit carrying a crystal can also detonate the tiberium to cause a destructive ion storm.

Tiberium has extraterrestrial origins and comes in a variety of forms, mostly the common green crystal but also in the form of rarer blue crystals, the extremely rare red crystals, and in the form of "veins". It can also be concentrated into a liquid form, as seen during the events of Tiberium Wars.

May 10, 2009 · Tiberium extracts metals and minerals out of the soil, forming them in crystals which can be easily collected and processed. However this leaves the landscape barren and devoid of life leaving...

Tiberium leeches metals and other heavy minerals out of the soil, concentrating them in crystals which can be easily collected and processed. The leeching process leaves the landscape depleted, leaving the ground underneath effectively useless for agriculture.

Tiberium crystals periodically appear on Idris landing pads. Send any unit to collect it, but carrying Tiberium reduces a unit’s speed and armour and takes all its special abilities off-line, although it still fires.

Tiberium crystals have 500 hit points and can be destroyed by forced fire. Units killed by ion storm don't give Victory Points.

Tiberium is a powerful plant-like crystalline substance found in the Command & Conquer series, which has various deleterious effects on everything it touches. Extraterrestrial in origin, Tiberium quickly absorbed and destroyed the majority of human civilization on Earth and is inexorably consuming the planet.